{"product_id":"what-we-know-solutions-from-our-experiences-in-the-justice-system-9781620975299","title":"What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.\" --from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. \u003cem\u003eWhat We Know\u003c\/em\u003e collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eReverend Vivian Nixon\u003c\/strong\u003e is executive director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a New York-based organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal-record histories and their families\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttorney \u003cstrong\u003eDaryl Atkinson\u003c\/strong\u003e was the inaugural Second Chance Fellow for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is now the co-director of Forward Justice, a law, policy, and strategy center in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated to advancing racial, social, and economic justice in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525026320658,"sku":"9781620975299","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d30b8db-65f3-4abe-be8d-3dc2d03f826f.jpg?v=1731199625","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-we-know-solutions-from-our-experiences-in-the-justice-system-9781620975299","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}